Today’s Capitol Ideas features an exclusive conversation with Speaker of the House Laurie Jinkins. The Speaker gives an overview of the just-concluded 2023 regular session of the Legislature, talks about her approach to the position she’s now held for four years, discusses the vital issue that will require the Legislature to meet during the upcoming special session, and gives us a preview of an adventure that awaits her during the interim.

Rep. Laurie Jinkins was chair of the House Civil Rights and Judiciary Committee when her colleagues changed her title to Speaker of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 2020 legislative session. Since then she’s led the House through a pair of unprecedented remote sessions necessitated by the pandemic, overseen the creation of an impressive number of landmark laws, sat at the head of the most diverse Democratic caucus in the history of the state, and backpacked all but 40 miles of the Washington section of the fabled Pacific Crest Trail. She’ll talk about all this and more in today’s special edition of Capitol Ideas.